Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Title: Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Requisition : 1775

Position Location: Sterling, VA

Position

Reports To:

Senior Manager, Software Engineer

Supervises Others: No

At Trident Systems, we believe that strong engineering principles are fundamental to driving innovation and solving complex problems. We promote a culture characterized by rigorous engineering practices and a commitment to continuous improvement. This is achieved by leveraging our organization’s collective expertise through collaborative development processes, which include thorough design and peer reviews. We can deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that meet our customers’ evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in aerospace electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation‑effects‑mitigated designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting‑edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space.

Trident is seeking a highly capable Senior Dev Ops Engineer to support the development, automation, and modernization of software and embedded systems environments across mission‑critical aerospace and defense programs. This role will drive CI/CD, infrastructure automation, system reliability, and Dev Ops process improvement across engineering teams.

• Lead and support Dev Ops initiatives across software, embedded, and infrastructure environments.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting embedded and cloud‑based development workflows.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment and testing using Infrastructure as Code and scripting tools.
• Administer and optimize Dev Ops tool chains including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonar Qube, Artifactory, Grafana and Prometheus.
• Support Linux and Windows development/test systems, Azure‑based infrastructure, networking, authentication, patching, and monitoring solutions.
• Develop automated deployment strategies for virtualized, containerized, and embedded hardware environments.
• Collaborate with software, IT, security, and program teams to improve development, release, deployment, and compliance processes.
• Maintain engineering tool licensing, user access, backups, documentation, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Support modernization efforts including application refactoring, cloud migration activities, and adoption of modern Dev Ops practices.
• Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree (or 4+ years with a master’s degree).
• Experience leading integration and production activities.
• Experience in supporting Dev Ops tools and associated pipeline environments such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonar Qube, Zephyr and Artifactory.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration and Git.
• Familiarity with automation strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible, Puppet or Terraform.
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Java, Python, Bash, etc.).

• CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Experience creating product verification and validation plans.
• Experience with Azure services (VMs, Blob Storage, SQL dbs, etc.).
• Experience working with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Experience with on‑premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations.
• Experience in system platform maintenance (STIGs, compile dependencies, etc.).
• Experience in database administration (MySQL, Maria
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL, etc.).
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (CIS, NIST, RFC
  2196, etc.).
• Azure Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• Ability to obtain a Security Clearance.

• Health benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Basic life with AD&D
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital and…